This is an interesting short video. Right off there are a few things that really stuck out to me. First, the pace of the video was very quick. The idea here in this video seems to be the promoting, or at least acknowldeging the ways of the present and ultimately the future. Information access has become incredibly quick. At the snap of a finger, quite literaly, we can have access to nearly anything we wish (anything that fits into the screen, that is). The video being paced very quickly proved to be very affective in illustrating this. Also, the writing taking place on the video was done all over the screen, giving the viewer the idea that yes, in fact, in this day and age you can write almost anything anywere. The one area of the video that turned me off was the small fraction of a second when some text was writen that implemented what we can call "Internet Lingo." I believe I saw a "U" being used in place of the word "you." Although it was very brief, I believe it sends an awful message, and that is that it is now becoming more and more acceptable to write in this sort of "letters in place of words, why bother using punctuation, faster faster faster" fashion. Here we have an educated man no doubt, who has put together this fantastic video, and yet we see that he is at times resorting to language and word forms that to be honest, someone who is 12 years old might use. Incredible video. Couldn't dream of putting something like that together myself. I just can't get over the "Internet Lingo."
I believe this professor chose to use U instead of you. I am sure he is aware of the rules of writing. His last little section tells us that we must rethink a lot of different things. One of them was ourselves.
This educated man is rethinking the way he is going to access the world. He is trying to inspire the internet savvy to do something different. It is often hard to start a revolution to change anything, let alone an industry standard.
People don't want to change.
What if we all received our degrees, and went out into the workforce, only to find that the industry standard had changed? We would want to find a job, but all the money and effort we put into learning the current trends would be useless. This would render us useless.
I would be interested to look up this internet 2.0 to see what it is all about, since I am interested in that kind of technology. If I find anything good, I will post a link to the site.
This piece was interesting in that the author used forms of digital rhetoric to communicate about digital rhetoric. I felt that this piece was a very effective form of communicating, specifically given the content. Showing by example. The piece perfectly encapsulated the point, while at the same time demonstrating.
Also, I think this piece really speaks to the importance of efffective communication via the internet. The video component and the demonstration that was produced made the piece what it was, and without it would have been something else entirely. Video is a large part of digital rhetoric and this piece exemplifies this.
I was entertained by the pencil piece at the beginning. Forgive me for being old-fashioned, and I know that wasn't the point, but didn't it, in a slight sense, prove that paper rhetoric is not as permanent and static as some of our authors are suggesting? I know that has no bearing on print documents, but it reminded me that even working with pens, pencils, typewriters, papers, we are still as free as we'd like to be in creating, adapting, altering, editing, refining, and finalizing writing. Although it will take longer, I can make all the changes I want to a story I've written on the typewriter - it just won't be set to music and have a youtube movie in the corner of the page. :)
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This is an interesting short video. Right off there are a few things that really stuck out to me. First, the pace of the video was very quick. The idea here in this video seems to be the promoting, or at least acknowldeging the ways of the present and ultimately the future. Information access has become incredibly quick. At the snap of a finger, quite literaly, we can have access to nearly anything we wish (anything that fits into the screen, that is). The video being paced very quickly proved to be very affective in illustrating this.
Also, the writing taking place on the video was done all over the screen, giving the viewer the idea that yes, in fact, in this day and age you can write almost anything anywere.
The one area of the video that turned me off was the small fraction of a second when some text was writen that implemented what we can call "Internet Lingo." I believe I saw a "U" being used in place of the word "you." Although it was very brief, I believe it sends an awful message, and that is that it is now becoming more and more acceptable to write in this sort of "letters in place of words, why bother using punctuation, faster faster faster" fashion. Here we have an educated man no doubt, who has put together this fantastic video, and yet we see that he is at times resorting to language and word forms that to be honest, someone who is 12 years old might use.
Incredible video. Couldn't dream of putting something like that together myself. I just can't get over the "Internet Lingo."
I believe this professor chose to use U instead of you. I am sure he is aware of the rules of writing. His last little section tells us that we must rethink a lot of different things. One of them was ourselves.
This educated man is rethinking the way he is going to access the world. He is trying to inspire the internet savvy to do something different. It is often hard to start a revolution to change anything, let alone an industry standard.
People don't want to change.
What if we all received our degrees, and went out into the workforce, only to find that the industry standard had changed? We would want to find a job, but all the money and effort we put into learning the current trends would be useless. This would render us useless.
I would be interested to look up this internet 2.0 to see what it is all about, since I am interested in that kind of technology. If I find anything good, I will post a link to the site.
John
I think you guys pretty much covered it, all I have to say is that was awesome.
This piece was interesting in that the author used forms of digital rhetoric to communicate about digital rhetoric. I felt that this piece was a very effective form of communicating, specifically given the content. Showing by example. The piece perfectly encapsulated the point, while at the same time demonstrating.
Also, I think this piece really speaks to the importance of efffective communication via the internet. The video component and the demonstration that was produced made the piece what it was, and without it would have been something else entirely. Video is a large part of digital rhetoric and this piece exemplifies this.
I was entertained by the pencil piece at the beginning. Forgive me for being old-fashioned, and I know that wasn't the point, but didn't it, in a slight sense, prove that paper rhetoric is not as permanent and static as some of our authors are suggesting? I know that has no bearing on print documents, but it reminded me that even working with pens, pencils, typewriters, papers, we are still as free as we'd like to be in creating, adapting, altering, editing, refining, and finalizing writing. Although it will take longer, I can make all the changes I want to a story I've written on the typewriter - it just won't be set to music and have a youtube movie in the corner of the page. :)
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